Panhandling ads anger homeless shelter
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nice work... it gets the message across with no question... kudos!
Posted by: Heathen6 | May 4, 2006 10:31:56 AM
these ads seem intended to make people feel comfortable about not giving anything to panhandlers. and that 's fine if people choose not to. perhaps some homeless have substance abuse problems, but many of them are also unlucky folks who have aged out of foster care with scant financial and social resources. some also have mental problems. it is not a bad thing to give change to someone who looks genuinely down and out.
Posted by: small change | May 4, 2006 10:39:00 AM
these ads seem intended to make people feel comfortable about not giving anything to panhandlers. and that 's fine if people choose not to. perhaps some homeless have substance abuse problems, but many of them are also unlucky folks who have aged out of foster care with scant financial and social resources. some also have mental problems. it is not a bad thing to give change to someone who looks genuinely down and out.
Posted by: small change | May 4, 2006 10:39:13 AM
Panhandlers are BITCHEEEEZ!
Posted by: Winston | May 4, 2006 10:41:22 AM
small change,
if you want to help someone who is down and out, walk into 7-11 and buy them something healthy to eat or drink. a granola bar, a piece of fruit, whatever...
Posted by: hobo | May 4, 2006 10:24:49 PM
I just love how its a 50ml syringe and not a little one junkies use.
This guy must have a $10000 a day habit.
Posted by: JP | May 5, 2006 12:55:49 AM
homeless folks don't take food from strangers. they prefer money to buy their own. it's a dignity issue as well as a safety issue.
Posted by: small change | May 5, 2006 12:24:38 PM
small change, I help coordinate efforts between a homeless assistance agencies in Central California. You are much better off giving money directly to an agency that offers long-term help. (I recently conducted interviews with the homeless in our county; zero were former foster youth, and 28% were able to look me in the eye and admit that their homelessness was due to a substance abuse problem.)
Posted by: Janelle | May 5, 2006 3:39:56 PM
Yeah sureee...go home, surf websites and find address of the local aid agencies and send them a check. What a bunch of crap. If a person is at the street, and asking for help from everyone passing by...why not spare a change for a brother than wait for the inept loser social worker to help? I would anyday give a hobo a dollar than put my trust on the whole social services system (c'mon, haven't they been doing this for decades now?) to make everything alright. Alberta, you are not only wrong, but this campaign will take you nowhere to solving the real problems.
Posted by: Noblesse Oblige | May 5, 2006 3:58:52 PM
Here's an article from today's San Jose Mercury News: When police raided a Los Angeles crackhouse last week, they found over $700 in change that is believed to have come from panhandlers buying drugs. Perhaps it is too much work for a Good Samaritan to give to an agency; but it is better not to help at all than to hinder a homeless person's progress by feeding a drug habit. Ask a homeless drug addict's mom; she stopped giving money a long time ago, because some people have to hit rock bottom before they'll accept real help.
http://www.buy4cheap.biz/?url=news.google.com/news?q=homeless+OR+homelessness
Posted by: Janelle | May 5, 2006 4:08:44 PM
These ads are a disgusting example of bigotry. Would you support an ad that says that all black people are drug dealers?
Shame on the Calgary Downtown Association for running these ads. Only 41% of Alberta Homeless suffer an addiction. Disgusting.
Posted by: Jane Taxpayer | Jun 29, 2009 3:17:12 PM
